Ari Shaw is a Senior Fellow & Director of International Programs at the Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA School of Law dedicated to conducting rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. He was previously on the senior staff at Columbia World Projects and has worked on human rights, global governance, and LGBTI issues for the Open Society Foundations, the Gill Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the United Nations Association of the USA, among others. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and he was a Multirights Fellow at the Norwegian Centre on Human Rights in Oslo. His work has appeared and been cited in both academic and mainstream publications, including World Politics Review and The Washington Post, and he is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Truman National Security Fellow. He holds a BA in government from Harvard University, an MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in political science from Northwestern University.